PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland leaders have unanimously agreed to pay $200,000 in attorney fees after a doomed bid to avoid releasing decades-old legal documents. The documents the city officials were forced to release deal with the long-contentious issue of how utility bureaus are supposed to handle ratepayer money, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. Retired developer
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Royals will be without 10 of the 26 players on their active roster for their upcoming trip to Toronto due to Canadian restrictions on travelers who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Manager Mike Matheny said Wednesday the club will be without hitters Andrew Benintendi, Hunter Dozier, Cam Gallagher, Kyle Isbel, MJ
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a significant expansion of health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The vote all but assures the measure will soon go to President Joe Biden to be signed
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, CNN A former CIA employee charged with carrying out the largest leak of classified data in the agency’s history was convicted on all counts in federal court Wednesday. Joshua Schulte — who was accused of handing over reams of classified data to WikiLeaks in 2016 — was convicted of illegally gathering and
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Trout is still expected to play in next week’s All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium despite dealing with upper back spasms. The Los Angeles Angels superstar wasn’t in the lineup for Wednesday’s game against the Houston Astros and could miss at least the next two
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas The Kardashian family is growing again. Khloé Kardashian and her ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson will welcome a second child via surrogate, a representative for Kardashian told CNN. The former couple are parents of 4-year-old daughter, True. “We can confirm True will have a sibling who was conceived in November. Khloé is incredibly grateful
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Wreaths Across America announced Wednesday that its Mobile Education Exhibit will be making a stop in Bend next month, partnering exclusively with NewsChannel 21 to kick off a 10-city statewide tour to honor those who served and welcome home Vietnam veterans.
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Mariners rookie Julio Rodríguez and Guardians slugger José Ramírez will compete in the All-Star Home Run Derby at Dodger Stadium next Monday. Rodríguez will be the 14th rookie to participate, and only two of those have won outright: Pete Alonso in 2019 and Aaron Judge in 2017. Alonso is the two-time defending
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An investigation has been launched after a person believed to be an Anchorage, Alaska, police officer was shown in a photo with a woman in town for a Donald Trump rally flashing a novelty “White Privilege card.” The social media post caused concerns about racial equality
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Deschutes County commissioners heard at a public hearing Wednesday from several people opposed to sending a ballot measure to voters this fall to “opt out” of psilocybin production in unincorporated areas of the county under a voter-approved program being implemented statewide next year.
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has postponed its vote on extending the U.N. political mission in crisis-wracked Haiti after China called for closed consultations on the resolution. China has no diplomatic relations with Haiti, which is the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country and is being wracked by
Continue ReadingBy KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — N’Keal Harry is getting the new beginning to his NFL career that he was looking for a year ago. The Patriots traded the 2019 first-round pick to Chicago for a seventh-round pick in 2024. It ends a tenure in New England that never really got
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland right-hander Aaron Civale was removed from a game against the Chicago White Sox after one inning with a sore right wrist. Civale allowed two hits and threw 20 pitches in the scoreless inning. Yoán Moncada and Eloy Jiménez were retired on fly balls that were caught on the warning track in
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government is giving American Airlines permission to resume flights to five cities in Cuba outside the capital of Havana. The Transportation Department announced the approval on Wednesday. It follows President Joe Biden’s move to restore some links between the U.S. and Cuba that were dropped by the Trump
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government is giving American Airlines permission to resume flights to five cities in Cuba outside the capital of Havana. The Transportation Department announced the approval on Wednesday. It follows President Joe Biden’s move to restore some links between the U.S. and Cuba that were dropped by the Trump
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An 82-year-old Portland man who was attacked at a bus stop near Portland State University in June has died, police said. Police said this week that Donald Pierce died July 7 of blunt force trauma, after he and 88-year-old Edward Lichtenstein were knocked to the ground and beaten around 8:30 p.m.
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A defendant in a Mississippi welfare fraud case says she directed $1.1 million in welfare money to former NFL star Brett Favre at the direction of former Gov. Phil Bryant. Mississippi news outlets report that the accusation, which Bryant denies, is in a filing on behalf of defendant Nancy New. New
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El ministro de Defensa de Colombia, Diego Molano, dijo este miércoles que el Gobierno de ese país ha sido informado por sus servicios de inteligencia que Luciano Marín Arango, “Iván Márquez”, uno de los líderes de las disidencias de las FARC, se encuentra en un hospital de Venezuela. Hablando con
Continue ReadingBy BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Crawford hit a game-ending RBI single and the San Francisco Giants rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3. Wilmer Flores tied the game in the eighth with a pinch-hit homer. Belt started San Francisco’s rally with a solo homer in
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — La División de Delitos Económicos del Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico radicó este miércoles cinco cargos contra Jorge Christian Batista Agront, un influencer puertorriqueño por presuntamente deberle “a Hacienda cerca de US$ 7,6 millones, tras incumplir con su deber de reportar más de US$ 11 millones en sus Planillas
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